Members of the Central New York Leadership Initiative are invited to join our networking meetings. Our meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. Share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program.

As a member of the Southern Tier Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. These evening meeting are especially designed for leaders and owners of family and group family programs. 

The Leadership Initiative is excited to offer weekly networking meetings on Zoom for our Long Island members of the Leadership Initiative. 

As a member of the Southern Tier Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. 

The Finger Lakes Leadership Initiative invites you to join our monthly virtual networking meetings. Our meetings create a space for us all to connect, to share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences in a community setting.

Members who are supporting or directly leading early childhood learning spaces are all welcome.

These virtual conversations are held via Zoom on the third Tuesday of every month. One session is held in the afternoon and another in the evening.

As a member of the Western New York Leadership Initiative, you are invited to join our networking meetings! Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. This is a space to share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program in Western NY.

Members of the WNY Leadership Initiative are invited to join our networking meetings. Meeting topics are driven by your questions and needs. This is a space to share stories, strategies, feelings, ideas, resources, and words of encouragement about leading an early childhood program in Western NY.

Networking in the evening is from 6 to 7 p.m.

In our professional learning community, you will come together with other leaders in discussion of the habits and dispositions of resilient educators outlined in the book Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar. 

These Long Island Leadership Initiative networking meetings are especially intended for home-based and family providers.

There are so many pieces to leading a child care program that sometimes we neglect the basics we started with — like policies and procedures, vision, hiring practices, mission and documentation. Please join QUALITYstarsNY and the Western NY Leadership Initiative for this three-part learning community to reflect on those leadership practices. We will discuss policies and procedures, staff retention and documentation.  

August 14 (hybrid): Sherry Phillips will be our guest facilitator and lead a discussion on documentation for an early childhood program.

Members of the Mid-Hudson Leadership Initiative are invited to join us for monthly networking meetings on Zoom.

An important role of any leader is growing and nurturing the development of up-and-coming leaders within the field.

Leaders with innovative succession planning practices cultivate a new generation of leaders by strategically creating opportunities for employees to explore leadership responsibilities.

Hear from a panel of experienced early childhood leaders on how to: 

• Plan leadership development for the next generation
• Establish a strategic process for succession planning
• Leverage succession planning as a staff retention tool 
• Explore the technical and adaptive challenges of succession planning

The Early Childhood Leadership Initiative is excited to introduce a new professional learning opportunity — the Learning Cafe! We’ll engage with videos, podcasts, TED Talks and other multimedia to explore a range of topics relevant to the early childhood community. We’ll provide you with resources and materials for discussion!

We are excited to kick-start July by welcoming you to our Learning Community. This Learning Community will focus on the book Powerful Interactions: How to Connect with Children to Extend Their Learning.This communal learning experience will take place on Zoom on July 11, 18, 25 and August 1 from 2 to 4pm. In this space we will strengthen our understanding and use of Powerful Interactions as part of an impactful leadership stance.  

We will dive deep into the research that affirms the importance of interactions through stories, photos and most importantly, insights from participants.

Through the simple framework of Powerful Interactions we will learn the foundations for creating a positive learning environment and building community while creating meaningful relationships as leaders. Additionally, we’ll discuss using this text as an effective tool for daily practice and new leadership strategies to work with our peers and students.

To join the waiting list for this series, please email us at: leadershipinitiative@earlychildhoodny.org

This event is for all those in Early Childhood Education who are interested in learning more about Early Head Start, and how to potentially start their own program/relationship. Prepare to hear from experienced individuals who are advocating and supporting children and families across New York State.